| A Fine Frenzy – The Beacon Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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The Beacon is obviously about a person with depression. Probably about Alison being in a relationship with someone who has depression. That's clear. What is not clear is what the Beacon Represents. A Beacon is a guiding light so in this instance I think the Beacon she is referring to is hope. Having a hope beacon, and being able to see it, is what keeps people growing and trying in life. If you "Can't feel or see it's light" that describes a person who is without hope, or in other words depressed. "Let me stand by you" is just her saying she loves this person so much even if they think they are bringing her down into the depression with them she still will stay and be supportive (as many people cannot stand being around depressed people, becase it is well, Depressing) and see them on the other side of this down time. The "lonliest light" however seems to indicate that when do find the beacon it will be lonely there and that does not quite fit in with hope. Maybe the hope beacon is lonely without this person in it's light, that sort of thing. Or that "it must get lonely there sometimes" is a reference to many people lose hope at some point and living with hope can be tough when everyone around you has no hope. Deep stuff though, that's why she is the best! |
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| A Fine Frenzy – Silent War Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This song is about how an insecure woman would "test" her man to see if he really loves her. It starts out with calm state of her watching him sleep and feelings start inside of her. This calm mind she speaks of is her feeling content in a relationship. But she knows from her experience that this calm is a false friend, an enemy. She knows that she will try to sabotage this relationship as she has done it many times before when she starts to feel connected to someone. She says jealousy is changing her and you can really only be jealous when you care about someone. These feelings of love and how she is starting to be connected to him are scary to her. To combat this, negative thoughts crop up in order to push him away to keep her safe from getting hurt. So maybe thoughts of: He is only using me He is cheating on me He is just like that last guy She then starts the accusations with "Guns A-blazing" I interpret this as she kind of goes nuts on him. She fights when she is afraid that they are getting to close and she needs to know that this guy is serious about her. In her mind if he really loves her he will fight just as strongly as she is fighting to keep the relationship together. If he is a "Lesser Man" he will "be afraid" just not put up with it and leave right away. When she speaks about "someone" saying she thinks to much and not listening to her heart. That someone was most likely a therapist as that is why she does not want to reveal who it was by saying she forgot who said it. This is her stopping for a minute and evaluating her behavior, thinking back to some inner work she has done. She knows she does this when she is afraid, she knows it's going to piss off the guy and she knows she shouldn't be doing it and just enjoy the moment now of what their relationship is but her survival instinct is telling her "Don't let this guy hurt you like the last guy!" so she is in automatic mode. Thinking or being analytical is the safe way to go through life so you will not get hurt. This is a woman whose heart has been broken to many times so she decides not to give into the feelings and just stick with the analytical because the feelings and emotions are to much to handle. That leads to the beautiful line of breaking ribs to pieces. Meaning she can get so emotional her heart is trying to beat out of her chest breaking ribs in the process. Note: The lyric is "air was thick as paint" (I asked Alison in an online chat session before a performance): meaning the air between them was think and heavy with anger, lies, distrust. Also helps to think about how healthy it would be to breathe paint. She knows what she is doing is not healthy for the relationship and the more she does it the thicker it gets (More unhealthy). First: Razed means to tear something down to the ground. (To level to the ground; demolish) ie: The old dilapidated house was razed to make new for a new one. Then we see his response with the verse about how he razed her, wore her down and shamed her as he left. While this seems like a bad thing it is exactly what she wanted. It shows that he had an equal emotional investment in the relationship. If he did not care about her he just would have left and chalked it up to "women are crazy" but he didn't, he stayed to at least fight for it. What we don't know is if he left her for good or just left the room to calm down. The last line about her being sorry is not only being sorry for what she said but what she has started in motion. She is sorry she has to do this in order to feel safe in a relationship; she is tired of doing it but cannot seem to stop. The “cause is the cure” lyric is tough to interpret for me. It was feelings of love that brought her to start this mess so maybe those same feelings of love will also give her the courage to fix it with him by being authentic and telling her truth about how she is really feeling about him and about what she is afraid of. I think it may also say something about the future of their relationship that since he did stay and fight she can now feel more comfortable opening up to him. This song, like many of Alison’s songs seem far to personal to not be about her. It makes me like her even more that she is someone who can see their own faults in a relationship and knows that she has some shortcomings that she needs to work on. And as a man it makes me hope that I would not be like her “Lesser man” in a relationship. That I would fight for and would care about someone enough for them to drive me crazy sometimes and not leave out of fear when they do. But a quiet content healthy relationship would be good to! I hope Alison has found this for her life. Can’s wait for the day when we hear news of her wedding and baby on the way! |
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